(1st UPDATE) Indian authorities revise the death toll from the train crash down to 275 from 288 after removing duplicates in the tally.
BAHANAGA, India – Indian authorities said they had concluded rescue operations on Sunday, June 4, after the country’s deadliest rail crash in more than two decades, with signal failure emerging as the likely cause of death for at least 275 people.was revised down from 288 after it was found that some bodies had been counted twice, said Pradeep Jena, chief secretary of the eastern state of Odisha.
That crash caused the engine and first four or five coaches of the Coromandel Express to jump the tracks, topple and hit the last two coaches of the Yeshwantpur-Howrah train heading in the opposite direction at 126 kilometers per hour on the second main track, she told reporters.The drivers of both passenger trains were injured but survived, she said.Workers with heavy machinery were clearing the damaged track, wrecked trains and electric cables, as distraught relatives looked on.
Kanchan Choudhury, 49, was searching for her husband at the centre. Five people from her village were on the train, four of them being treated at the hospital for injuries. Her husband was found dead, she said, weeping as she waited to claim compensation, carrying her and her husband’s identity cards.
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